Recent reviews by Sucris

Story sucks, characters that are good like Rohan are killed off meaninglessly and we are left with things like Nimbus.

3 weeks later, still don't know what the main story is about or at least the context of what we were even trying to do.

Like try watching Lord of the Rings but you never see the Ring and you don't know what the Ring does. Also the good potential characters die and your left with sidekick personalities in lead roles. That's Lightfall.

ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT... Game still has the SAME ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ISSUES AS DESTINY ONE. Unacceptable.

Just go play Diablo 2 or even Diablo 3.

TL:DR Don't waste your time or money investing in this F2P game. The free to play aspect only applies to the base portion of the game and to even do anything at this point you need to get about 3 DLCs and a Season pass (As of writing this post the breakdown is as follows: Newest DLC 39.99, previous 2 DLC bundle 49.99, Season pass 14.99. 104.97 total for a free to play game.) And to top it off, most of the content will be removed when the newest DLC drops even if you don’t purchase it.

A little backstory since my total playtime isn’t represented accurately in steam. I played D1 for about 4000 hours on XB1 under the same username as D2 and played D2 up to the start of the Forsaken totaling about 1400 hours. I have played almost every aspect that this game had to offer up until that point.

Starting with the good, though there isn’t much at this point.

Graphics are great. They sometimes tell the story of where you are and what you are doing better than the narration. I love the skyboxes and just the general atmosphere of the game. Very visually appealing.

Gameplay feels like incredibly smooth once you have a grasp how to utilize the games double jump mechanic, and that doesn’t take long. You can do some crazy movements and feel like you own whatever battle you are in.

Even though I don’t feel like the Destiny 2 raids really stand up to the ones in original Destiny, I feel it is worth mentioning. Raiding is one of the main draws of this game to me and even though the new ones didn’t stick with me, it was an overall fun experience.

There is nothing else positive about this game so here is the bad.

The story is all over the place. It’s hard to follow unless you play everything as it comes out and even then it can be very difficult to understand what is going on or what you are even doing sometimes.

Bungie abuses FOMO mechanics to make you feel like you’re always missing something important when 90% of the rewards are unrewarding and then proceeds to make all the stuff meaningless by making gear have a planned obsolescence date.

Introducing DCV and ‘vaulting’ content that we paid for in a free to play game that is only a few years old if that because the ‘game is too big’. It isn’t, its 91GB and is currently in a content drought that’s been around since D2s release. Here are a few things that will be removed from the game upon the new DLC release; (https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/49189)
- Mars, Io, Titan, Mercury, and the Leviathan will no longer be available.
- All PvE content related to those locations are no longer accessible.
- 7 Strikes are being removed
- Leviathan and Scourge of the Past raids are being removed
- 10 Crucible (PvP) maps are being removed

PvP is unbalance and almost always one sided as the matchmaking system is and always has been broken. If you are a new to this game, don’t even bother trying to get into it. Most of if not all of the weapons that are worth using in PvP are usually quest based or some form of long grind (that includes multiple PvP objectives) or in most cases like our favorite shotgun, Felwinter’s Lie, it’s locked behind a limited time event. Even if you play during that event, it only has a chance to be there when the event shows up.

To add to PvP, there is no cheat prevention. When I played back during the first 2 years of D2 it wasn’t as big of an issue as it is now but it is a huge active problem if you want to PvP for anything more than doing bounties.

Finally and literally the worst thing they have ever done is add Eververse to the game. Or after they lost their shame they just call it the store in the main menu now. If the lack of content was a negative, this doubles down on that. It was bad when they added it back in D1 but it got worse in D2. When they added this cancer to the game they told us this: (https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/13672)

“Our plan is to use these new items to bolster the service provided by our live team for another full year, as they grow and create more robust and engaging events that we’ll announce later this year.”

Anyone remember Sparrow Racing League? Because that seemed to be the one and only time we got something that was tied to Eververse and wasn’t a complete micro transaction event. Eververse has just become a place to put items that should be drops throughout the game or rewards tied to completing Achievements or Triumphs.

Oh, and those events they mentioned in the above news article? I remember the first Dawning event that happened after D2 was released. I don’t remember the exact numbers but If I recall correctly it was like 70% of the items were behind the Eververse paywall, and the other 30% was time gated. If you were lucky with drops and played it like a full time job you may have gotten something you wanted. This has been the theme for all their events. (Crimson Days, Festival of the Lost, The Dawning, and a few others)

There is no hope for Bungie, they have come a long way since the company that made Halo and it seems they have lost their touch and their way of making meaningful content for gamers. I will never touch this game or anything with the Bungie logo on it ever again.

Edit: Game is still absolute trash. Hundreds of hours of content removed and still the same problems from before this game was even on PC let alone steam. Don't give bungie any more money, let the company die already so we can have a company with enough brain power to execute a looter shooter game.

Edit: Steam asking me if my opinion has changed since i have more time played. It hasn't. Don't get sucked into this abusive relationship.

Edit: Bungie continues to be plagued by the same issues it's had since the beginning of the original destiny that they keep blaming on other external reasons like Activision or Microsoft or even their playerbase. No, it's time to stop being delusional. Bungie was a 1 hit wonder with Halo and they shouldn't be judged as "bY tHe CoMpAnY tHaT mAdE HaLo?!" This game is not good. The developers are not good. They prey of FoMo and addiction to keep their players playing. This company doesn't respect your time or effort in any way and doesn't deserve any money until they make something worth buying.

This game is pure mental abuse directly from Bungie.

TL:DR - This game is not worth it's 20$ price tag. Maybe worth it when it’s closer to 5$.

Pros -

It's really fun starting out and getting some cool things that constantly change your game and surprises you with some cool mechanics.

The sprites and the music are very well done. I have the Bathcat/Toadvine track stuck in my head right now.

Cons -

Very repetitive overall and even though it seems like the rooms are random, you really start to see that they are not random but randomly place pre-made rooms.

Very short game that gives the fake sense of content by ‘hexing’ you after you beat it and you do it again but harder.

RNG is not your friend and it never will be. I went almost 5 floors without finding a single key and only 2 bombs, and on a few runs I was completely locked out of any sort of path forward and had to use the ‘give up’ option in the menu. This should never happen.

The jumping mechanic feels extremely clunky and a huge problem being that it is your primary way of dodging attacks.

Ruined MCC multiplayer.

This game is absolutly addicting. I've given 2 nights of sleep to this game already and I know its not the last.

This is just a cheap ploy to get more money. The game is nothing like CS:S and is more like TF2 without the cartoons. The graphical update between the games isn't even what you would expect for the time it took to release after CS:S. It's littered with micro transactions and in order to get anything 'new' you have to buy a damn pass.

Save yourself the trouble and get CS:S.